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Dutch Computer Museums

https://aresluna.org/dutch-computer-museums/
48•npollock•1h ago•12 comments

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf
168•suopspaces•4h ago•95 comments

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
111•hn_acker•19h ago•37 comments

FLUX 3 Image

https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image
105•minimaxir•22h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

https://stillwet.art/
86•alstonite•17h ago•23 comments

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5977815/trump-icc-sanctions-kimberly-prost
92•rbanffy•53m ago•23 comments

Supabase is acquiring Turso

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso
133•cvburgess•2h ago•70 comments

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/
266•pietroppeter•12h ago•63 comments

Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/giving-friends-custom-text-buzzes-based-on-morse-code/
32•evakhoury•22h ago•15 comments

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
510•luispa•18h ago•370 comments

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

https://www.science.org/content/article/nazi-germany-had-no-hope-making-atomic-bomb-uranium-cubes...
63•xqcgrek2•16h ago•23 comments

To grieve, or not to grieve?

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/
98•stabbles•1d ago•87 comments

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

https://github.com/kvoltmer/Audionaut
118•vltmrkls•9h ago•39 comments

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

https://www.frogandtoad.ai/
489•supermdguy•19h ago•114 comments

Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36178
17•mrkn1•3h ago•1 comments

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
602•jasondavies•1d ago•213 comments

Tiny Brutalism

https://placeholders.itch.io/tiny-brutalism
75•abetusk•18h ago•19 comments

Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1623&context=wlulr
10•gradus_ad•17h ago•3 comments

Now That's an Impurity Story

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/now-s-impurity-story
32•dcminter•21h ago•2 comments

SvelteKit 3

https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here
379•sampsn•21h ago•162 comments

Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI

https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb
31•jv22222•23h ago•5 comments

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
532•chmaynard•1d ago•494 comments

Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-d...
39•Betelbuddy•2h ago•11 comments

Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/company-knowledge-bench
18•emil_sorensen•4h ago•1 comments

Pi 1.0

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/
1618•sergiotapia•22h ago•552 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

252•whoishiring•1d ago•251 comments

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/
372•Kuyawa•14h ago•194 comments

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
611•Snowly•1d ago•168 comments

Turbo Haskell

https://comonad.com/reader/2026/turbo-haskell/
188•pjmlp•1d ago•48 comments

Pi Durable

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/
474•paulsmith•22h ago•65 comments
Open in hackernews

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

https://www.science.org/content/article/nazi-germany-had-no-hope-making-atomic-bomb-uranium-cubes-reveal
63•xqcgrek2•16h ago

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expedition32•10h ago
This was already known. The British put the German scientists into a big country house after the war and bugged all the rooms. After the US dropped the atomic bombs the German scientists spent weeks discussing with eachother how the Americans could have done it. They never got it right.
amsully•57m ago
It’s a great read from beginning to end https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/tran...
yalok•20m ago
Amazing. Kind of reminds of the modern day discourse on potential dangers of AGI and humans misuse of it.
Robotbeat•5m ago
Yup. The race-to-AGI-because-China in particular. I’m basically a China Hawk and generally in favor of AI development, but I can recognize the same pattern.
NDlurker•18m ago
That was incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing.
smallmancontrov•42m ago
Heisenberg used a bad approximation that led him to incorrectly believe he would need tons of U235 to produce a bomb. His model for bomb viability was essentially "a random neutron walk should not leave the core until producing enough generations to explode." In reality, you don't need that much U235 because earlier generations have exponentially more descendants and they are closer to the core -- the later generations can leak neutrons out of the core like a sieve and the exponential party deep in the core won't even notice, effortlessly replacing them by cooking a tiny fraction of a generation longer.

It was Peierls and Frisch, two Jewish German scientists, who figured out those dynamics, modeled them with the Neutron Diffusion equation, and repeatedly prodded UK intelligence until they were taken seriously. Then the project got sent across the Atlantic for safety and scale-up and the rest is history.

Germany could have had the Atom Bomb in WWII, but Nazi Germany could not have because Jewish Science gave a decisive advantage.

sandworm101•37m ago
>> Jewish Science

Jewish Scientists.

smallmancontrov•31m ago
I was mocking the Nazi attacks on the work of Jewish scientists which branded that work as "Jewish Science" and declared it inferior, because this whole story is a Reverse Uno card on that narrative.
ahartmetz•21m ago
Some part of the German physics community even did "German physics" which did not include quantum physics and relativity.
gloryjulio•
ck2•33m ago
but imagine if they did, wow, history would absolutely be completely different and they'd still be in power

speaking of which, pretty sure he's turning Iran to sand after the elections, he'll have nothing left to lose and US is only country to ever use nuclear weapons on a million innocent civilians, twice, so why stop now?

we're out of other weapons except these which seems wildly illegal to use especially on civilians

* https://apnews.com/article/iran-lamerd-us-prsm-lockheed-mart...

Imagine if Putin was using those on Ukraine civilians but US uses them no problem?

AnimalMuppet•9m ago
Why do you think that anyone here considers US use to be "no problem"?
rgrieselhuber•3m ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0150vqp
11m ago
Agree with that. There were also 'Soviet Science'.
eli_gottlieb•7m ago
Yes, but it would have been a better world if the Nazis had never invented the idea of Judenphysik in the first place. It stopped Gentile German physicists from working on whole areas of research!
ianburrell•14m ago
Another problem is that Germans went for heavy water reactors and didn't even get as far as prototypes. Americans built graphite moderated reactors and quickly built plutonium production reactors at Hanford. Also, Allies were able to prevent Germans getting heavy water from Norway.